Call for entries: "REFUGEE!"

Deadline: Monday, 21 December 2015
Call for entries

"REFUGEE!"

artvideoKoeln is looking for artvideos dealing with the topic of “refugees” to take part in an exhibition project to be realised 2016 and later.

There are currently more than 60 millions of refugees on the globe, people who left their home country in order to escape war, persecution and murder, but also poverty, hunger and the lack of any living perspectives.

People in Europe speak currently of the “refugee crisis”, as if the streams of refugees would come by coincidence. In fact, Europe, respectively the old European colonial superpowers , among them Great Britain and France, and on a smaller scale Spain, Portgal and some others prepared the fertile soil for all current conflicts, wars and civil wars in Middle East, Asia and Africa. When the colonial powers left the stage, after World War II other imperial powers – like USA and Sovjetunion, and nowadays also some others – were replacing them and continued again the powergames at the expenses of the local people anywhere. They were feeding the current local Islam dominated regional powers in Middle East and their main tool to maintain and expand power, the terrorism. In the current “crisis”, Europe – meanwhile shrinked to a nearly irrelevant regional power – is taking the position of a silent observer with fatal effects.

It is said, the refugee crises would be the biggest since World War II, but the transmigration of people does not represent a new phenomenon in the history of human civilization, it is even like that, that the phenomenon of transmigration was always initiating a new era, a renewal and an important step forward to a next level of human civilization.

But the open call would like to get down to the human dimensions, since the refugees are human individuals who are forced to leave their home countries in order to get shelter, protection and perspectives for survival elsewhere. Do or did they find the “promissed land” – temporarily or for sure?

Artists and video makers are invited to submit and spotlight this human dimension and the diversity of reasons and motivations to become a refugee.

More details, regulations and entry form on:
http://netex.nmartproject.net/?p=6772